Word: grips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Priority No. 1. Wrest away from the Communist Party the grip it holds today on 5,000,000 Frenchmen by giving back to the French people the long-forgotten feeling of social and material progress; in other words, by restoring hope...
...series of bloody pogroms in the Russia of Czar Alexander III set off another great wave of Jewish immigration -2,000,000 came to the U.S. between 1881 and 1914. mostly from Russia and Poland. These Eastern Jews brought with them orthodoxy, Zionism, the Yiddish language and a tighter grip on their Jewish traditions than the Germans had shown...
...sharp thrusts for some of his critics-the breed described by Old Socialist Norman Thomas as the liberals "who may be reluctantly persuaded that Alger Hiss is guilty, but never can forgive Whittaker Chambers." Rorty and Decter completely reject the hysterical view that the U.S. is in the grip of McCarthy-inspired hysteria, or that the man from Wisconsin is the American Hitler...
Cathedral Hush. Everything following might be expected to be anticlimactic, but Berlioz achieves perhaps his greatest effects in the quieter passages that grip the heart after all the thunder. The superb Sanctus calls for a tenor solo in which, by a dazzling piece of orchestration, the single, defenseless human voice is set off against the relentless clash of cymbals; and in the sweet, concluding Agnus Dei, there are chilling traces of jagged pagan rhythms (later used by Stravinsky). Conductor Munch tenderly and forcefully drove toward the end, spinning out the Amen with a loving final touch. A cathedral hush hung...
...relatives. Hour after hour, nurses and doctors moved among them, checking symptoms and-all too often-confirming the diagnosis of polio. With more than 500 cases reported already, and with the worst weeks of August and September still ahead, it was clear that Los Angeles County is in the grip of its severest epidemic, save only that of 1948. One hopeful note: the strain of polio in Los Angeles appeared to be less virulent than in former years, was causing proportionately fewer cases of paralysis...